Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[BlindLemonChicken]

I spent most of my early life interacting primarily with adults, and a LOT of that time was with my great grandmother and great grandfather who are Scottish and Welsh.

Random but do you pronounce your h in who, what, where, etc? My husband is a stickler about this even though he sounds like a Southern surfer. I guess that’s what happens when you leave the south for a wHile lol

 

[fuzzi]

I have an appointment for an assessment for cataract correction later this month.
I'm quite nervous at the prospect of having the operation. The only other operation I've walked in for willingly, I've been out cold before I got there for a couple, was to have my wrists slashed for carpal tunnel syndrome. I watched the whole thing.
I must point out that I didn't go and do as the eldest has said "went and got his wits slashed."

I had one cataract surgery, worst part was the drops prior. I love being able to drive without glasses, and seeing better at night.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

I used to get ridiculed for speaking properly, even by my own family, I was actually accused of being a snob (although sometimes more rude terms were used.) because I did not use contractions or slang most of my childhood and teen years, but it was just the way I spoke.

I spent most of my early life interacting primarily with adults, and a LOT of that time was with my great grandmother and great grandfather who are Scottish and Welsh. I think that this is why I do not have a lot of conversations outside of work or the Egg Thief, I have tried to adopt the "normal" phraseology, but it just gets all mixed up to the point that nothing sounds quite right to my ear.

I have what might be an opposite problem - I’m a natural mimic, for lack of a better term, and I wind up echoing speech patterns and accent of anyone around me, including in books I’ve just read.

I’m particularly obnoxious after reading “tartan noir” (Scottish police procedural,)

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I’m particularly obnoxious after reading “tartan noir” (Scottish police procedural,)

Don’t pick up a Roddy Doyle book! I read a couple in row and started using some odd (for Americans) slang and none too ladylike haha

 

[fuzzi]

I forgot to turn the lights off.
I have forgotten my name.

It's one of those depends things. I'm sure there's a grammar rule for it. Past and present tense but I can think of exceptions in current use.

I cringe over "woken" as in "he was woken up". It's "he was awakened".

Kids

Tax:

Two of the OEGB pullets. Looks like Doris is managing to eat well despite the older hens enforcing the pecking order.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Random but do you pronounce your h in who, what, where, etc? My husband is a stickler about this even though he sounds like a Southern surfer. I guess that’s what happens when you leave the south for a wHile lol

Ahhhhh, the “h” sound in “wh”!

I don’t know if you’ve ever come across Little Bubby Child, but it perfectly captures Southern Appalachian accents.

This one features the iconic “hwat” toward the end (”I tell ye hwat”). I lived in Knoxville and then South Knox County for decades and have met this guy - several copies of him were dads of my Girl Scout troops. Salt of the earth.

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7314579918988250414

 

[MrsNorthie]

Random but do you pronounce your h in who, what, where, etc? My husband is a stickler about this even though he sounds like a Southern surfer. I guess that’s what happens when you leave the south for a wHile lol

Not with wHat or wHere, in those cases the H is silent. With wHo, the H is the prominent sound, "Hoo", but I am a darned Yankee, born in Vermont, despite living all over the country. We always tell people, the Egg Thief is Old England and I am New England.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Don’t pick up a Roddy Doyle book! I read a couple in row and started using some odd (for Americans) slang and none too ladylike haha

My mother (now 98), a Memphis girl, loved soul music, and I desperately wanted to take her to see “The Commitments”, but that carpet f-bombing ruled it out. (From a Roddy Doyle book) But yeah, I always sound a bit strange after I watch it again.

 

[MrsNorthie]

I should not have looked at https://www.rarepoultrysociety.com/breed-gallery.html that @Perris shared. There are some seriously beautiful chickens! I really need more land and unlimited funds. ;-)

 

[rural mouse]

I used to get ridiculed for speaking properly, even by my own family, I was actually accused of being a snob (although sometimes more rude terms were used.) because I did not use contractions or slang most of my childhood and teen years, but it was just the way I spoke.

I spent most of my early life interacting primarily with adults, and a LOT of that time was with my great grandmother and great grandfather who are Scottish and Welsh. I think that this is why I do not have a lot of conversations outside of work or the Egg Thief, I have tried to adopt the "normal" phraseology, but it just gets all mixed up to the point that nothing sounds quite right to my ear.

Speak/write/post as suits you best. Clearly this is a wide-ranging group with a willingness to dive into edifying rabbit holes. I'm also seeing a willingness to ask questions and take questions asked as genuine, with correspondingly genuine responses, albeit infused with humor. Personally, I enjoy the diverse speech and topics.